NATIONAL LIBERAL FEDERIA ITION MANIFESTO.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LVIII, Issue LVIII, 3 December 1909, Page 5

NATIONAL LIBERAL FEDERIA ITION MANIFESTO.

"(Receaved December 3, 8.5 a.m>) LONDON, Decetmber 2. ' The National Liberal Federation jnanifesto states that the issues in--vaived are. as grave, as asny fit the lifoctime. of the oldest voter. The victory <©£ the Tory party would involve the -degradation oi the Commona and tho of the Lords, as well •ac a return: to Protection with its inevitable taxes on r food. The electors .have to deieidei whether" they wish to „ govern themselvea oa* to be governed by the few bWdredi hereditary .peieaia •■who had! thrawm the constitutioni into .the melting-pot in- order to shift tho • burden/ from wealth, land, and liquo. •to food and either rieeeasaries of life. COMMENT BY THE TIMES. The Times declares' that Mr As*quith'a resolution embodies the doctrine of the. la&b four years, goes much any previous, assertion! of privifcgies, and, by implication, denies thu •pwctr or right of the Lords to have a voice in any legislation tacked to tho Budget. It was only incidentally that the Lords refused supplies tibia year. What really lias been done, is to refer :to the country a quantity of legislation -involving novel principles, denying tthe right of appeal to the courts of 'law, andl establishing an expensiva ■bureaucracy with arbitrary inquisivfcorial powers.